Death With Dignity and why TPTB Promote Religion and Discourage Suicide | |
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Dace User ID: 982248 Puerto Rico 01/14/2014 04:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I believe that Sir Terry Pratchett is just about the most famous person currently pushing for the right. He is the author of the popular 'Discworld' series, as well as the book 'Good Omens', with Neil Gaiman and many others. He has been experiencing the effects of advanced alzheimer's for years....and as such, his discworld series have thinned down from 6 or 7 recurring storylines/characters to mainly two threads now. He still comes up with the major plots and someone else writes for him, I believe, as he cannot sign dedications to fans anymore and is only able to still sign his name. Here's a documentary made about him, and another video of him asserting his stance. . |
Goddess of the sea 1 User ID: 2275678 United States 01/14/2014 04:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thank you O.P I agree completely. My Father is so ill. He is suffering so badly. I want him to be able to escape when needed. I want to be able to go if I am suffering at that level. Death is nothing to fear. We do not really die. |
shyrlymyrly User ID: 52862023 Sweden 01/14/2014 04:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I couldn't read it to the end, I got really disgusted by the OP. I knew a girl who jumped out of her window because she broke up with her boyfriend. Is it normal? Is it good? NO!!!! Religion teaches that no matter what happens you must be strong and live through the difficulties. ´People commit suicide nowadays because of stupid things. Suicide rates are too high. And I'm not even talking what the loved ones feel while losing a dear person. Psychiatry is the most evil institution on Earth. You are sad? You are ill, let's call this illness depression. Oh you want to kill yourself? Here, have these pills, they make you more suicidal. And this is how our medical institutions HELP suicidal people? Yeah, go on with your story how TPTB discourages suicide. I feel sorry for the doctors who became doctors to help humans and put years to learn how to do it, now they have to murder people instead. I'm a bibletard, sorry for the inconvenience. |
Upgrayedd User ID: 52605323 United States 01/14/2014 04:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Looks like judges are catching up with basic morality: Quoting: Em18966 "New Mexico is set to become the fifth US state where doctors are allowed to aid the death of terminally ill patients after a landmark court ruling. “This court cannot envision a right more fundamental, more private or more integral to the liberty, safety and happiness of a New Mexican than the right of a competent, terminally ill patient to choose aid in dying,” Judge Nan G. Nash of the Second District Court in Albuquerque wrote in her ruling. "If decisions made in the shadow of one's imminent death regarding how they and their loved ones will face that death are not fundamental and at the core of these constitutional guarantees, than what decisions are?" The decision came after a two-day hearing of a case brought by two doctors on behalf of Aja Riggs, a 49-year-old uterine cancer patient, who is currently in remission, but wants a lethal injection if her condition worsens. “I don’t want to suffer needlessly at the end,” Riggs told the court during one of the sessions. As of now, assisting a suicide within state borders is a fourth-degree felony, and could lead to 18 months in jail and a fine of up to $5,000, according to a law passed in 1963. The plaintiffs, supported by nationwide advocacy groups, argued that the law did not apply to medical conditions. The judge rejected the argument, but agreed that the ability to end one’s life as desired was a “fundamental right.” " [link to rt.com] Why only terminally ill people? Shouldn't anyone be afforded this right? Of course, doctors would have the right of refusal. Otherwise, like back-alley abortions, we'd have people offing themselves in the sloppiest of manners without a doctor's help. Last Edited by Handsome Squidward on 01/14/2014 04:28 PM Meet the new boss; same as the old boss. Trust in those that seek the truth. Doubt those who find it. |
SingleCellOrganism User ID: 10887564 United States 01/14/2014 04:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thank you O.P Quoting: Goddess of the sea 1 2275678 I agree completely. My Father is so ill. He is suffering so badly. I want him to be able to escape when needed. I want to be able to go if I am suffering at that level. Death is nothing to fear. We do not really die. In your fathers case I certainly understand. Before modern medicine this wouldn't even be an issue. However, the OP is suggesting that suicide is non-grata because TPTB need workers/slaves. Which is nonsensical, just like the suggesting that religion is about control rather than moral conceptions / ontological statements. |
Upgrayedd User ID: 52605323 United States 01/14/2014 04:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I couldn't read it to the end, I got really disgusted by the OP. I knew a girl who jumped out of her window because she broke up with her boyfriend. Is it normal? Is it good? NO!!!! Quoting: shyrlymyrly Religion teaches that no matter what happens you must be strong and live through the difficulties. ´People commit suicide nowadays because of stupid things. Suicide rates are too high. And I'm not even talking what the loved ones feel while losing a dear person. Psychiatry is the most evil institution on Earth. You are sad? You are ill, let's call this illness depression. Oh you want to kill yourself? Here, have these pills, they make you more suicidal. And this is how our medical institutions HELP suicidal people? Yeah, go on with your story how TPTB discourages suicide. I feel sorry for the doctors who became doctors to help humans and put years to learn how to do it, now they have to murder people instead. Frankly, I admire people who are able to overcome their base instinct of self-preservation. It takes amazing courage and strength to pack it in, no matter the catalyst for such an extreme decision. Meet the new boss; same as the old boss. Trust in those that seek the truth. Doubt those who find it. |
SingleCellOrganism User ID: 10887564 United States 01/14/2014 04:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I couldn't read it to the end, I got really disgusted by the OP. I knew a girl who jumped out of her window because she broke up with her boyfriend. Is it normal? Is it good? NO!!!! Quoting: shyrlymyrly Religion teaches that no matter what happens you must be strong and live through the difficulties. ´People commit suicide nowadays because of stupid things. Suicide rates are too high. And I'm not even talking what the loved ones feel while losing a dear person. Psychiatry is the most evil institution on Earth. You are sad? You are ill, let's call this illness depression. Oh you want to kill yourself? Here, have these pills, they make you more suicidal. And this is how our medical institutions HELP suicidal people? Yeah, go on with your story how TPTB discourages suicide. I feel sorry for the doctors who became doctors to help humans and put years to learn how to do it, now they have to murder people instead. Frankly, I admire people who are able to overcome their base instinct of self-preservation. It takes amazing courage and strength to pack it in, no matter the catalyst for such an extreme decision. Wouldn't it take MORE courage and strength to deal with the problem rather than giving up? |
Bebe User ID: 13754185 United States 01/14/2014 04:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Killing yourself is an arrogant, vain act that is greatly frowned upon by the very One who created you in the first place. Get mess for the depression, get pills for the physical pain but for Pete's sake, ending it all will land you in extremely hot water. God is merciful but He is also a judge. Duh. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 51201040 United States 01/14/2014 04:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Why were religions really created? Quoting: Em18966 Why have the been used by those in power to manipulate and control the populous since societies formed and civilizations began? I mean, any rational person can look at organized religions and their interconnectedness with secular governments and know without question that these religions exist for no other reason than to subjugate and enslave millions of people. I have been watching a documentary about Oregon's assisted suicide/death with dignity laws and listening to the people chronicled in the film has made me think a lot about why suicide is so culturally stigmatized and why governments need religions to keep their sheeple in line. These people, who have had the legal right to opt of their pain and suffering at their leisure have regained total control of themselves and their souls. Even those who choose not to follow through with euthanasia but who have the drugs that will end their lives painlessly and with dignity in their possession seem to possess a freedom that most humans only dream of - even as they suffer from various painful and debilitating terminal illnesses. Religion is used to keep people in line, to give them a healthy fear that whatever happens after they die may be worse than whatever hell they are suffering here. That if they willfully leave this realm, they will be condemned to an eternity of suffering. That the best they can hope for in all of existence is to be a slave in this life and a servant in the next. It makes people pliable, docile, easy to control by ingraining in their psyche from their earliest memory that the don't truly own themselves - that they are someone or something else's property. These people, who know that they can choose to end their suffering on this plane, without pain and without judgement, seem to be more at peace and less like sheep than any people I have ever observed. They know they belong to no one but themselves. That both their body and their soul are theirs and theirs alone to do with as they please, when they please, and if they so choose. Can you imagine a society full of people who knew this? They would be sheeple no more, and TPTB knows this. They want us to feel owned, from the cradle to the grave, to take whatever they dish out because we HAVE NO VIABLE ALTERNATIVE. Can you imagine how difficult it would be to control a million workers if you knew that if you pushed them too far, they just might not be there tomorrow? They might all simply opt out and end this existence - painlessly. That THEY owned themselves and their fate and they knew it? You may think a little bit more about how you treated them if you knew they might not be there tomorrow. Look, for example, at China, where Apple has had to install nets around buildings to prevent people from jumping off. They can't even KILL themselves. They have no alternative to getting up every morning and being cogs in the corporate machine. I think EVERYBODY should have the right to have in their cupboard an easy way out. I think that government's created religion and religious guilt to keep their slaves enslaved and from escaping this existence on their own terms. It is the taboo of death, the fear of eternal punishment, that keeps the good little sheep in line. It's the idea that we are owned by a big bad sky daddy who will be very VERY disappointed in us if we refuse to be slaves that keeps us slaves in the first place. It's all a lie. They don't want us dead because it takes time to grow the next generation of workers. That's it. If they want to promote religion, How come they are trying to get rid of God out of everything? I believe religion it self is a control device, but at the same time there is a God, a creator. So they need a religion to control the masses but they want to get rid of God. so let them have the religions just don't be fooled and run from God God is real religion is a control device. |
shyrlymyrly User ID: 52862023 Sweden 01/14/2014 04:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I couldn't read it to the end, I got really disgusted by the OP. I knew a girl who jumped out of her window because she broke up with her boyfriend. Is it normal? Is it good? NO!!!! Quoting: shyrlymyrly Religion teaches that no matter what happens you must be strong and live through the difficulties. ´People commit suicide nowadays because of stupid things. Suicide rates are too high. And I'm not even talking what the loved ones feel while losing a dear person. Psychiatry is the most evil institution on Earth. You are sad? You are ill, let's call this illness depression. Oh you want to kill yourself? Here, have these pills, they make you more suicidal. And this is how our medical institutions HELP suicidal people? Yeah, go on with your story how TPTB discourages suicide. I feel sorry for the doctors who became doctors to help humans and put years to learn how to do it, now they have to murder people instead. Frankly, I admire people who are able to overcome their base instinct of self-preservation. It takes amazing courage and strength to pack it in, no matter the catalyst for such an extreme decision. What if it is your mother? Or your father? Or your soulmate? You wouldn't think like that. I was friends with a guy who's mother hanged herself, left her two children with a huge loan and totally alone. Now is it strenght? Is it right to do so? Is it courageous to hurt people who love you? No it isn't. I'm a bibletard, sorry for the inconvenience. |
Upgrayedd User ID: 52605323 United States 01/14/2014 04:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I couldn't read it to the end, I got really disgusted by the OP. I knew a girl who jumped out of her window because she broke up with her boyfriend. Is it normal? Is it good? NO!!!! Quoting: shyrlymyrly Religion teaches that no matter what happens you must be strong and live through the difficulties. ´People commit suicide nowadays because of stupid things. Suicide rates are too high. And I'm not even talking what the loved ones feel while losing a dear person. Psychiatry is the most evil institution on Earth. You are sad? You are ill, let's call this illness depression. Oh you want to kill yourself? Here, have these pills, they make you more suicidal. And this is how our medical institutions HELP suicidal people? Yeah, go on with your story how TPTB discourages suicide. I feel sorry for the doctors who became doctors to help humans and put years to learn how to do it, now they have to murder people instead. Frankly, I admire people who are able to overcome their base instinct of self-preservation. It takes amazing courage and strength to pack it in, no matter the catalyst for such an extreme decision. Wouldn't it take MORE courage and strength to deal with the problem rather than giving up? I don't think so. Taking a chance on the unknown and overcoming our most natural instinct seems like the tougher road(to me). Meet the new boss; same as the old boss. Trust in those that seek the truth. Doubt those who find it. |
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Upgrayedd User ID: 52605323 United States 01/14/2014 04:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I couldn't read it to the end, I got really disgusted by the OP. I knew a girl who jumped out of her window because she broke up with her boyfriend. Is it normal? Is it good? NO!!!! Quoting: shyrlymyrly Religion teaches that no matter what happens you must be strong and live through the difficulties. ´People commit suicide nowadays because of stupid things. Suicide rates are too high. And I'm not even talking what the loved ones feel while losing a dear person. Psychiatry is the most evil institution on Earth. You are sad? You are ill, let's call this illness depression. Oh you want to kill yourself? Here, have these pills, they make you more suicidal. And this is how our medical institutions HELP suicidal people? Yeah, go on with your story how TPTB discourages suicide. I feel sorry for the doctors who became doctors to help humans and put years to learn how to do it, now they have to murder people instead. Frankly, I admire people who are able to overcome their base instinct of self-preservation. It takes amazing courage and strength to pack it in, no matter the catalyst for such an extreme decision. What if it is your mother? Or your father? Or your soulmate? You wouldn't think like that. I was friends with a guy who's mother hanged herself, left her two children with a huge loan and totally alone. Now is it strenght? Is it right to do so? Is it courageous to hurt people who love you? No it isn't. My maternal grandfather(gun), a first cousin(hanging), another first cousin(suicide by cop) and a second cousin(intentional overdose) all did it. I've had a long history with suicide(since age 8) and being an extremely(to a fault some say) objective person, I have come to the conclusion I iterated earlier. Your presumption on the way another would/should feel it what disturbs me most about your post, btw. Meet the new boss; same as the old boss. Trust in those that seek the truth. Doubt those who find it. |
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Creepy-Ass Cracker User ID: 52948130 United States 01/14/2014 04:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [Reserves personal thoughts on matter out of respect for the potentially weak of heart.] Quoting: Mister Obvious M.O. holding back her thoughts? Well... This discussion/OP hinges mainly on suicide, and my thoughts on the matter don't have anything to do with suicide. I have had 2 friends kill themselves, and another who failed. the 2 that succeeded had no health problems, one was older, and one was 26.The one that was older took an overdose. It destroyed her family.The one that was 26 killed himself to get "back" at his father, who he hated. The one that failed was only 19 and healthy when he tried. His suicide attempt left him blind, but he is glad he is alive. So, where will this all stop, or will it. In some other countries, they allow assisted suicide for people with mental problems, because they are "suffering" also. Older people are encouraged by their families to kill themselves. Some younger people view the elderly and disabled as burdens who need to be euthanized. Hitler encouraged legal suicide, and forced euthanasia on thousands of sick, disabled, and elderly people. Then it escalated into other categories of people. Reread history. That is the problem, people don't know history. There's a man in a white house with blood on his mouth! If there's Knaves in the North, there are braves in the South. We are three thousand horses, and not one afraid; We are three thousand sabres and not a dull blade. :78g: |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 50026930 United States 01/14/2014 04:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | like most blanket judgments & labels, there will always be those programmed to believe that life is to be cherished at all costs. bull fucking shit. sometimes suicide is the only sane, logical choice. there are brave souls who have done the blasphemous deed but are truly heroes. for others, it's just another selfish control mechanism that leaves no outlet for the survivors. some suicides, i respect; others are tragic; some really should consider it for the sake of the rest. that is all. |
SnotNose User ID: 7442223 United States 01/14/2014 04:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Why were religions really created? Quoting: Em18966 Why have the been used by those in power to manipulate and control the populous since societies formed and civilizations began? I mean, any rational person can look at organized religions and their interconnectedness with secular governments and know without question that these religions exist for no other reason than to subjugate and enslave millions of people. I have been watching a documentary about Oregon's assisted suicide/death with dignity laws and listening to the people chronicled in the film has made me think a lot about why suicide is so culturally stigmatized and why governments need religions to keep their sheeple in line. These people, who have had the legal right to opt of their pain and suffering at their leisure have regained total control of themselves and their souls. Even those who choose not to follow through with euthanasia but who have the drugs that will end their lives painlessly and with dignity in their possession seem to possess a freedom that most humans only dream of - even as they suffer from various painful and debilitating terminal illnesses. Religion is used to keep people in line, to give them a healthy fear that whatever happens after they die may be worse than whatever hell they are suffering here. That if they willfully leave this realm, they will be condemned to an eternity of suffering. That the best they can hope for in all of existence is to be a slave in this life and a servant in the next. It makes people pliable, docile, easy to control by ingraining in their psyche from their earliest memory that the don't truly own themselves - that they are someone or something else's property. These people, who know that they can choose to end their suffering on this plane, without pain and without judgement, seem to be more at peace and less like sheep than any people I have ever observed. They know they belong to no one but themselves. That both their body and their soul are theirs and theirs alone to do with as they please, when they please, and if they so choose. Can you imagine a society full of people who knew this? They would be sheeple no more, and TPTB knows this. They want us to feel owned, from the cradle to the grave, to take whatever they dish out because we HAVE NO VIABLE ALTERNATIVE. Can you imagine how difficult it would be to control a million workers if you knew that if you pushed them too far, they just might not be there tomorrow? They might all simply opt out and end this existence - painlessly. That THEY owned themselves and their fate and they knew it? You may think a little bit more about how you treated them if you knew they might not be there tomorrow. Look, for example, at China, where Apple has had to install nets around buildings to prevent people from jumping off. They can't even KILL themselves. They have no alternative to getting up every morning and being cogs in the corporate machine. I think EVERYBODY should have the right to have in their cupboard an easy way out. I think that government's created religion and religious guilt to keep their slaves enslaved and from escaping this existence on their own terms. It is the taboo of death, the fear of eternal punishment, that keeps the good little sheep in line. It's the idea that we are owned by a big bad sky daddy who will be very VERY disappointed in us if we refuse to be slaves that keeps us slaves in the first place. It's all a lie. They don't want us dead because it takes time to grow the next generation of workers. That's it. You are forgiven. You are forgiven for being a Moron. |
shyrlymyrly User ID: 52862023 Sweden 01/14/2014 05:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I couldn't read it to the end, I got really disgusted by the OP. I knew a girl who jumped out of her window because she broke up with her boyfriend. Is it normal? Is it good? NO!!!! Quoting: shyrlymyrly Religion teaches that no matter what happens you must be strong and live through the difficulties. ´People commit suicide nowadays because of stupid things. Suicide rates are too high. And I'm not even talking what the loved ones feel while losing a dear person. Psychiatry is the most evil institution on Earth. You are sad? You are ill, let's call this illness depression. Oh you want to kill yourself? Here, have these pills, they make you more suicidal. And this is how our medical institutions HELP suicidal people? Yeah, go on with your story how TPTB discourages suicide. I feel sorry for the doctors who became doctors to help humans and put years to learn how to do it, now they have to murder people instead. Frankly, I admire people who are able to overcome their base instinct of self-preservation. It takes amazing courage and strength to pack it in, no matter the catalyst for such an extreme decision. What if it is your mother? Or your father? Or your soulmate? You wouldn't think like that. I was friends with a guy who's mother hanged herself, left her two children with a huge loan and totally alone. Now is it strenght? Is it right to do so? Is it courageous to hurt people who love you? No it isn't. My maternal grandfather(gun), a first cousin(hanging), another first cousin(suicide by cop) and a second cousin(intentional overdose) all did it. I've had a long history with suicide(since age 8) and being an extremely(to a fault some say) objective person, I have come to the conclusion I iterated earlier. Your presumption on the way another would/should feel it what disturbs me most about your post, btw. Are you happy that they killed themselves? I don't think so. I believe you have this opinion on suicide to feel better about your loss. To make your relatives choice seem courageous instead of a crucial mistake. I'm a bibletard, sorry for the inconvenience. |
Chuckie Joe User ID: 43994092 United States 01/14/2014 05:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They want us dead now. Eugenics is their religion. Yes, as through this world I've wandered I've seen lots of funny men; Some will rob you with a six-gun, And some with a fountain pen. And as through your life you travel, Yes, as through your life you roam, You won't never see an outlaw Drive a family from their home. |
Kirk User ID: 23299871 United States 01/14/2014 05:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Why were religions really created? Quoting: Em18966 Why have the been used by those in power to manipulate and control the populous since societies formed and civilizations began? I mean, any rational person can look at organized religions and their interconnectedness with secular governments and know without question that these religions exist for no other reason than to subjugate and enslave millions of people. I have been watching a documentary about Oregon's assisted suicide/death with dignity laws and listening to the people chronicled in the film has made me think a lot about why suicide is so culturally stigmatized and why governments need religions to keep their sheeple in line. These people, who have had the legal right to opt of their pain and suffering at their leisure have regained total control of themselves and their souls. Even those who choose not to follow through with euthanasia but who have the drugs that will end their lives painlessly and with dignity in their possession seem to possess a freedom that most humans only dream of - even as they suffer from various painful and debilitating terminal illnesses. Religion is used to keep people in line, to give them a healthy fear that whatever happens after they die may be worse than whatever hell they are suffering here. That if they willfully leave this realm, they will be condemned to an eternity of suffering. That the best they can hope for in all of existence is to be a slave in this life and a servant in the next. It makes people pliable, docile, easy to control by ingraining in their psyche from their earliest memory that the don't truly own themselves - that they are someone or something else's property. These people, who know that they can choose to end their suffering on this plane, without pain and without judgement, seem to be more at peace and less like sheep than any people I have ever observed. They know they belong to no one but themselves. That both their body and their soul are theirs and theirs alone to do with as they please, when they please, and if they so choose. Can you imagine a society full of people who knew this? They would be sheeple no more, and TPTB knows this. They want us to feel owned, from the cradle to the grave, to take whatever they dish out because we HAVE NO VIABLE ALTERNATIVE. Can you imagine how difficult it would be to control a million workers if you knew that if you pushed them too far, they just might not be there tomorrow? They might all simply opt out and end this existence - painlessly. That THEY owned themselves and their fate and they knew it? You may think a little bit more about how you treated them if you knew they might not be there tomorrow. Look, for example, at China, where Apple has had to install nets around buildings to prevent people from jumping off. They can't even KILL themselves. They have no alternative to getting up every morning and being cogs in the corporate machine. I think EVERYBODY should have the right to have in their cupboard an easy way out. I think that government's created religion and religious guilt to keep their slaves enslaved and from escaping this existence on their own terms. It is the taboo of death, the fear of eternal punishment, that keeps the good little sheep in line. It's the idea that we are owned by a big bad sky daddy who will be very VERY disappointed in us if we refuse to be slaves that keeps us slaves in the first place. It's all a lie. They don't want us dead because it takes time to grow the next generation of workers. That's it. They can't even KILL themselves. So that is the only tall building in town? do I sniff a troll? Government is a body largely ungoverned. |
Robert49 User ID: 51417786 United States 01/14/2014 05:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man destroyeth the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye." Quoting: javierruizleon 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 And why should you care if someone prefers to die with dignity? What if they aren't believers in your religion? Are laws required simply because you don't approve? Then don't be so chicken shit about it and want someone else to assist you in your efforts to off yourself! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 52864999 United States 01/14/2014 05:17 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Religions weren't created by anyone for a nefarious purpose. They just occur naturally. It's one of the dumbest conspiracy theories that "TPTB" created every religion ever for the purpose of controlling people. It doesn't stand up to basic reasoning, and places the power of the conspirators on some absurdly impossible level. They would literally have to be gods themselves to pull off such a scheme. |
Robert49 User ID: 51417786 United States 01/14/2014 05:20 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Well... This discussion/OP hinges mainly on suicide, and my thoughts on the matter don't have anything to do with suicide. I have had 2 friends kill themselves, and another who failed. the 2 that succeeded had no health problems, one was older, and one was 26.The one that was older took an overdose. It destroyed her family.The one that was 26 killed himself to get "back" at his father, who he hated. The one that failed was only 19 and healthy when he tried. His suicide attempt left him blind, but he is glad he is alive. So, where will this all stop, or will it. In some other countries, they allow assisted suicide for people with mental problems, because they are "suffering" also. Older people are encouraged by their families to kill themselves. Some younger people view the elderly and disabled as burdens who need to be euthanized. Hitler encouraged legal suicide, and forced euthanasia on thousands of sick, disabled, and elderly people. Then it escalated into other categories of people. Reread history. That is the problem, people don't know history. Correct! We now have a selfish narcissistic society on our hands! Look at how society reacts to someone getting beating, robbed or raped in broad daylight and no one seems to want to come to the victims aid! That is the same mentality of these idiots that think assisted suicide is some how a good thing! They are too willfully ignorant about the history of such societal pro-death history! They are also completely narcissistic little selfish twits! |
Azadok User ID: 48171460 United States 01/14/2014 05:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You have to love these so called Christians that tell people they or their loved ones are in hell or going to hell, if they take their own life . We are not to judge and most certainly do not know what state of mind one is in when they do commit suicide , only God can answer that question . As a person that lives in severe chronic pain for nearly two decades I can absolutely see how some people can not handle the accumulative effects of the pain on ones brain and then decide to just end it . God is a loving and forgiving God , so wh is anyone to say how they will be judged . I know for a fact I would have ended it a long time ago if I did not have pain meds , or at least would have drank or overdosed trying to self medicate off of street drugs to numb the pain . But again you are mixing apples and oranges to make your point and the fact you hate religion makes your arguement in your mind legitimate , when in fact it is idiotic . We do have separation of church and state here so again your point is moot . |
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queenbee User ID: 1562977 United States 01/14/2014 05:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | people get to a point in their lives when old or sick that naturally they would die from a simple infection. think of it as the grim reaper. but really what is so grim about reaping? it is freeing the spirit to go on to something new. it is their time. doctors get in the way of this, every time a bug (reaper) comes along to take one of these people. then you get old and sick people just lingering, lingering lingering. they can't say a full sentence. their heart is on a pace maker. they can't use their hands or get up from their wheel chairs to use the bathroom. they can't eat well. they can't think. they can't understand why people come at them with needles. they hurt everywhere. they bite and kick and their existence is hell. i don't ever want to be that. why why why don't doctors stop medicating these people? within a week the suffering in this country would be released by eons. why wouldn't my grandmother, when she still had her mind, sign the forms that said "stop medicating me"? religion and fear. why don't doctors/hospitals/nurses push for this? there would be a giant sucking sound as the money to handle all of this suffering dried up. |
Ozicell User ID: 52110436 Australia 01/14/2014 05:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Why were religions really created? Quoting: Em18966 Why have the been used by those in power to manipulate and control the populous since societies formed and civilizations began? I mean, any rational person can look at organized religions and their interconnectedness with secular governments and know without question that these religions exist for no other reason than to subjugate and enslave millions of people. I have been watching a documentary about Oregon's assisted suicide/death with dignity laws and listening to the people chronicled in the film has made me think a lot about why suicide is so culturally stigmatized and why governments need religions to keep their sheeple in line. These people, who have had the legal right to opt of their pain and suffering at their leisure have regained total control of themselves and their souls. Even those who choose not to follow through with euthanasia but who have the drugs that will end their lives painlessly and with dignity in their possession seem to possess a freedom that most humans only dream of - even as they suffer from various painful and debilitating terminal illnesses. Religion is used to keep people in line, to give them a healthy fear that whatever happens after they die may be worse than whatever hell they are suffering here. That if they willfully leave this realm, they will be condemned to an eternity of suffering. That the best they can hope for in all of existence is to be a slave in this life and a servant in the next. It makes people pliable, docile, easy to control by ingraining in their psyche from their earliest memory that the don't truly own themselves - that they are someone or something else's property. These people, who know that they can choose to end their suffering on this plane, without pain and without judgement, seem to be more at peace and less like sheep than any people I have ever observed. They know they belong to no one but themselves. That both their body and their soul are theirs and theirs alone to do with as they please, when they please, and if they so choose. Can you imagine a society full of people who knew this? They would be sheeple no more, and TPTB knows this. They want us to feel owned, from the cradle to the grave, to take whatever they dish out because we HAVE NO VIABLE ALTERNATIVE. Can you imagine how difficult it would be to control a million workers if you knew that if you pushed them too far, they just might not be there tomorrow? They might all simply opt out and end this existence - painlessly. That THEY owned themselves and their fate and they knew it? You may think a little bit more about how you treated them if you knew they might not be there tomorrow. Look, for example, at China, where Apple has had to install nets around buildings to prevent people from jumping off. They can't even KILL themselves. They have no alternative to getting up every morning and being cogs in the corporate machine. I think EVERYBODY should have the right to have in their cupboard an easy way out. I think that government's created religion and religious guilt to keep their slaves enslaved and from escaping this existence on their own terms. It is the taboo of death, the fear of eternal punishment, that keeps the good little sheep in line. It's the idea that we are owned by a big bad sky daddy who will be very VERY disappointed in us if we refuse to be slaves that keeps us slaves in the first place. It's all a lie. They don't want us dead because it takes time to grow the next generation of workers. That's it. Interesting thoughts on this subject. That which is - has already been, And what is to be - has already been. Quote: King Solomon. |